En irakisk TikTok-stjerne, Om Fahad, blev skudt og dræbt i et angreb sent om aftenen uden for sit hjem i Bagdads Zoyouna-distrikt.
En trist nyhed ramte TikTok-fans, da den irakiske stjerne, Om Fahad, blev skudt og dræbt uden for sit hjem i Bagdad. Med hundredtusindvis af følgere på platformen havde influenceren tidligere fået en fængselsdom på seks måneder sidste år. Om Fahad var kendt for sine sjove dansevideoer til irakisk musik, der underholdt hendes næsten halve million følgere på TikTok.
Hendes pludselige død chokerede fans verden over, da en ukendt angriber ankom på en motorcykel og skød hende i hendes bil i Zayouna-distriktet i Baghdad. Myndighederne i Irak er nu i gang med at efterforske denne tragiske hændelse for at finde gerningsmanden. Om Fahad, også kendt som Ghufran Sawadi, blev angiveligt skudt, mens hun sad i en sort SUV fredag aften.
I en uhyggelig udvikling omkring hendes skæbne bringer denne tragedie fokus på sikkerheden for offentlige personligheder og influencere i Irak. Om Fahads pludselige bortgang har ført til nationale debatter om beskyttelsen af berømtheder i landet og behovet for at tackle sådanne voldshandlinger i samfundet. Fans fortsætter med at mindes hende gennem hendes dansevideoer og mindeværdige øjeblikke på TikTok, der vidner om hendes popularitet og indflydelse i sociale medier-verdenen.
The influencer, who had hundreds of thousands of followers, had been sentenced to six months in prison last year.
Officials say unidentified man killed influencer who had previously been imprisoned over dancing videos. Agence France-Presse in Baghdad.
Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad was shot dead in a late-night attack outside her home in eastern Baghdad's Zoyouna district, Al Jazeera reported on Saturday.
Om Fahad, who has nearly half a million TikTok followers, became famous for posting light-hearted videos where she dances to Iraqi music.
Om Fahad was reportedly killed outside her residence in Baghdad on Friday (26 April) by an unknown gunman. The young TikTok celebrity made headlines last ...
An unidentified attacker arrived on a motorbike and shot the popular influencer in her car in the Zayouna district of Baghdad, Iraq, a security official ...
An Iraqi TikTok star, popularly known as Om Fahad, has been shot dead in a late-night attack outside her home in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district.
A lone assailant on a motorbike approached Fahad, whose legal name is Ghufran Sawadi, as she sat in a black SUV on Friday night. He fired shots inside the car ...
Iraqi authorities are investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer Um Fahad who was shot by an armed motorcyclist in front of her home ...
Fahad previously faced legal and societal repercussions due to the nature of her content, which included dances.
Om Fahad, whose real name is Ghufran Sawadi, was killed in Baghdad's eastern Zayne neighbourhood on Friday. It appears the unidentified attacker pretended to be ...
As per Al Jazeera report, the viral creator of Tiktok was shot down by an unidentified assailant. The CCTV footage which captured the incident is being ...
Om Fahad was shot in her car in the Zayouna district by an unidentified assailant, according to a security officer who asked to remain anonymous.
Iraqi TikTok star Om Fahad was shot dead outside her home in Baghdad by an unidentified attacker on Saturday.
Iraqi authorities on Saturday were investigating the killing of a well-known social media influencer, who was shot by an armed motorcyclist.
Officials in Baghdad said that a well-known social media personality was shot and killed outside her residence in the Iraqi capital.